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Predatory Journals Workshop

In honor of Open Access Week in October, Dr.Thomas Arruda and Olga Verbeek will be hosting a workshop to help the Salve community identify predatory publishers and avoid submitting their work to questionable journals

There are now an estimated 8,000 predatory journals collectively publishing more than 400,000 research studies each year (Cobey, 2017). These journals offer to rapidly publish research findings at a lower cost (often as open-access) than legitimate journals, but do not provide quality controls such as peer-review. In this workshop we will explore the make-up of these predatory journals and learn how to distinguish between these and legitimate peer-reviewed open access journals.

Thomas Arruda, assistant professor in chemistry has a B.S. in chemistry, University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in chemistry, Northeastern University.

Olga Verbeek, associate director of collection services and information technology, received a B.Sc. in honours marine biology, University of Guelph and a M.S. in computer science and a M.S.L.I.S. in library and information studies, University of Rhode Island.